Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Two Funny Videos

Well sort of funny anyway...if watching fat guys goofing around is funny. It's a "we're not laughing with you we're laughing at you", sort of a deal - which is fine since it's pretty obvious looking at the video that these guys recorded these as a joke. Let us hope.

Numa Numa Dance - a fat guy rockin out to a Hungarian folk song.

Star Wars Kid - a fat guy playing with a pretend light saber.

Speaking of fat funny guys...

I think Chris Farley was one of the funniest fat guys, had to love Matt Foley, the motivational speaker who lived in a van down by the river. SNL keeps pretty close tabs on those videos, so you won't find them on the internet. I like the movie "Tommy Boy" and think the scene from "Tommy Boy" where he's singing "fat guy in a little suit" is pretty memorable.

Chris Farley was a fat guy, and funny partly because he was a good physical comedian. There have been quite a few fat comedians - Chris Farley, Jackie Gleason, John Candy, and John Belushi (a little fat) come to mind - but no really fat comedians. At some point on the fat scale we lose the ability to laugh at or with fat people and start to feel some mix of pity and repulsion.

I think there must be something instinctive in our gut reaction when we see super-fat people (people who can no longer function and have to ride a scooter or have gross amounts of fat hanging off them). My guess is that it's an instinct we have from our cave man ancestors that tells us that person is in danger of being eaten by a saber tooth tiger (we feel sorry for them because they look like a tasty treat and can't run very fast). On the other hand we think...hey I can outrun that guy ;-)